I'm trying to do a survey on a campaign micro site comparing registered and non-registered users. Originally, I was intending to use a popup survey. But my technical team tell me that service pack two is defaulted to block automatically popped windows. Further more, the survey guide from the site says:- "Opt-in surveys, where everyone can choose to take the survey from a link somewhere on your site is not a sample-based method, and therefore does not have validity from a research perspective."
So if you can't (1) pop a window (2) put on a button on the site or (3) send an email how do you do an online survey? Is this a hotly debated subject as it seems a complete show stopper for many types of online survey? `
Popup blockers / SP2/ surveys, hobart65, 1 Oct 17:47 I'm trying to do a survey on a campaign micro site comparing registered and non-registered users. Originally, I was intending to use a popup survey. But my technical team tell me t ...
Popup blockers / SP2/ surveys, textor, 2 Oct 15:17 I can't see how it is possible to conduct a sample survey on a web site if that is the criteria. To take a survey someone has to make a decision, and where it is to take a link to ...
Popup blockers / SP2/ surveys, Clicktools, 4 Oct 18:10 Presumably you know who your registered users are and also maintain demographics on them? If this is true, there is no reason why you have to run the same survey to both sets of us ...
Popup blockers / SP2/ surveys, ChrisHandford, 7 Oct 15:43 Edigitalresearch claim to have a solution to this. I'm not sure if they can provide exit surveys though which have previously proved the most useful/reliable of pop-up surveys.
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Popup blockers / SP2/ surveys, Clicktools, 7 Oct 16:08 Layering is one way of getting round the pop-up situation but, to most people, layers are just as annoying as pop-ups.. as when a user sees layered content (I think the guardian si ...